By Mary Schenk, The Carmi Times There’s only about one kind of call that scares a police officer more than a shooting at a shopping mall. “Our nightmare scenario would be a school shooting, followed by a shooting at the mall,” said Champaign police Sgt. Bob Rea, commander of the department’s SWAT team. That’s why …
Tag Archive: School shootings
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Mar
18
2011
Arming Teachers and Staff…Improving School Safety?
By Rick Shaw, Awareity.com In response to the January 2011 shooting at a Nebraska high school that killed one school administrator and seriously injured another, Sen. Mark Christensen of Imperial has introduced LB 516. The bill would allow security guards, administrators and teachers to carry a concealed handgun at Nebraska public and private schools, including …
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Jan
24
2011
NC: Colleges might bar students for safety reasons
By Jane Stancill, The Charlotte Observer The state’s community colleges could soon be able to deny admission to applicants who appear to pose a health or safety threat. On Friday, the State Board of Community Colleges voted to amend the system’s long-standing open-door admissions policy. The change would allow the 58 colleges to refuse to …
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Sep
10
2010
Dawson shooting spurred mental disorder spike
from CBC News A groundbreaking study on fallout of the 2006 shooting at Montreal’s Dawson College reveals that nearly one-third of students and staff suffered from psychological trauma in the years after the event. A groundbreaking study on fallout of the 2006 shooting at Dawson College in Montreal reveals that nearly one-third of students and …
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Jun
24
2010
Arizona Community Colleges and Hawaii’s Entire University System Join Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus
Press Release from PRNewswire The Maricopa Community Colleges in Arizona, representing 10 schools, and the entire Hawaii University system, including its three main universities and seven community colleges, joined the Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus. Each school system signed resolutions in support of keeping loaded firearms off its campuses to protect students, faculty and …
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